Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasInstitute for International Economics, 2000 - 431 pagine On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden-and possibly nuclear-armed-totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and "muddling through" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation. |
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... began to dwindle , and the North proved largely incapable of growing through the " intensive " means of raising the productivity of existing assets . Having borrowed extensively on international markets in the aftermath of the first oil ...
... began building a five megawatt reactor , which in 1986 became operational about three miles away at Yongbyon . According to defectors , it was also during this period that the North Koreans began constructing nuclear weapon production ...
... began , and it was not until 1989 , when other socialist regimes began to collapse and the economy began to enter free fall , that the Ceauşescu regime toppled . This suggests caution in drawing too deter- ministic a link between ...
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Introduction | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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